Events
Week of Events
Oceans of Dissent Workshop
Oceans of Dissent will serve as a feminist gathering to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. Our deliberations will foreground inter-linked landscapes across multiple oceanic field-formations, to expand settled narratives of region, historiography, aesthetics and […]
Sunday, March 29, 2026
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Monday, March 30, 2026
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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Thursday, April 2, 2026
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April 2, 2026Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as "his generation's most […]
Friday, April 3, 2026
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Saturday, April 4, 2026
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April 4, 2026 -Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
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April 4, 2026Music in North Africa: From Cultural Mixity to Political Expression
Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree), a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature's deep-rooted cycles of renewal. "A masterclass […]
Music in North Africa: From Cultural Mixity to Political Expression
This talk will look at various musical genres in North Africa to explore the history of a region that is at the crossroads of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. How is music an expression of the cultural diversity of the region? How have musicians played a central political role from the colonial period to […]